Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

The 9.5 magnitude earthquake struck about 3,800 years in northern Chile, the study in the Science Advances journal determined. The study said it was a megathrust earthquake, which is when one ...

The scale also has no upper limit. The largest recorded earthquake occurred along the subduction zone in Chile in 1960. It was a magnitude 9.5 but larger earthquakes may be possible. Fortunately, ...

The tectonic activity along the Ring of Fire also results in about 90% of the world’s earthquakes, including the Valdivia Earthquake of Chile in 1960, the strongest recorded earthquake at 9.5 ...

The zone includes Chile, where a 9.5-magnitude earthquake in 1960 — the most powerful in the 20th century — killed about 1,655 people, according to the USGS. A 9.2-magnitude earthquake in ...

Just a quick note while keeping up with the devastating earthquake in Chile. At the moment we are awaiting news of the tsunami that will hit Easter Island soon. It will be one of our first ...

World Tsunami Awareness Day is celebrated every year on November 5 to increase awareness about the dangers of tsunamis and ...

The Ring of Fire is a string of Pacific volcanoes. Eruptions are a constant threat for Indonesia and other nations ...

Chile's Central Bank Thursday reported an 18.1% economic growth in May, which has brought it back to the pace of prepandemic levels. “The level of activity before the pandemic has recovered ...

In the weeks that followed the Federal Reserve’s September decision to cut interest rates for the first time in four years, many banks and credit unions started to scale back their promised ...

In 1952, Harry Truman was in the last years of his presidency and the hot new thing in Denver was an exotic technology called television. On October 12th 1952 KBTV Channel 9 began broadcasting a ...

The story of Sony begins when Japanese products were often viewed as cheap and low-quality. Co-founders Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita changed this view for good by starting Sony Corporation ...